The homeland. our work does not infringe on free speech. okay. so. does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties. it s not about speech. it s about the connectivity to violence. steve: is that all? well, dhs secretary mayorkas yesterday defending the administration s new disinformation governance board from critics accusing them, the administration of trying to stifle free speech before the midterms. ainsley: fox news contributor newt gingrich is the author of an upcoming book called defeating big government socialism and he joins us now to react. good morning to you, newt. good morning. how are you? ainsley: we are doing well. he was saying that i wish i had explained it better and went on the sunday shows to try to explain it we were saying this morning if it s about stopping violence on social media. why not call it the antiviolence board. the disinformation board that s launched of the same week that musk buys twitter just seems
Skeptical of this and rightfully so. steve: here s the thing. he answered what we wanted know about. he said, it s about violence and one of his quotes is people have the right to spew anti-met stick rhetoric. what they don t have the right to do is take hostages in the synagogue. ainsley: call it the antiviolence board. steve: we already have a department of justice that does that. ainsley: true. steve: what this does is the department of homeland security is looking into the stuff concerning the countries of russia, china, iran and cartels. he listed that think about it. the hunter laptop, that was deemed as russian disinformation. people put stuff out there. that was a russian made. the steel dossier, russia, russia, russia. so that stuff still falls under the doj test. ainsley: the bottom line is we don t trust the government to handle what we are going to see, what news is going to be out there based on the past.